Sketches and Reminiscences by Joshua Hilary Hudson Sketches
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f h>t ciif out by a tailor. Put - the family, my mother© and two ing this, her first year in t.Jie " eldest sisters busily plying the small house -<> kindly furnished , needle, and the little ones chat Sketches and Reminiscences Sketches and Reminiscences her by Mr. lio-.borough, she al- : ting, studying books and keep- lowed her two elde-t children to inji but partly warm. How my be taken by a relative to York- ; mother©- heart kept warm and by Joshua Hilary Hudson by Joshua Hilary Hudson ville and -ent to school. My i her spirits nerved, and how we eldest brother. .I»hn. my third : manayed to live through such sister. Mm lit, af.d I were us f tiial-, poverty, ami want, I can-, :\M Khl©CA©l H©N aid I Id I was Lorn in Ihe present luwri could not continue tn be pel - tthcr ;* an (then village» of Chester, in the formed by a wumari, and >he was ( poor scholars, seni to -chool to not now conceive. Hut God M"t }\r>i iici. i i ela;-.f d b r r t*f- i>i . the vitiate teiu-l©ii©j©, Mi-.> Ann , tempers the wind to the shorn I Msila I mm; © " Slate of South Carolina, on the forced to >eck shelter else- j foil> tn keep her children a! and ol>| a m»<i w 11 n L©illh iia.\ of January A. I>. \W2. when-, and how would this be | Foster, win* lauu©ht -.clioni near- lamb. He is husband to the »e|nHi|, :©.-peeially 1 fie younir©1 © "by my mother©s iu u house sub widow and father t© ; he father M r. .lami s I©ai ish, the My fjith-T. 1 )abiiey Hudson, found ^ She was without money ! nnc-i, >i-ler Miiria, I, brot hei prnmi" •• sequently and for many years less, and He prese. .- = -,1 us and ruakei . I yave MUM- o was born in Amhi©isl County, or means, and with seven help Itn.-h and -i;*ter Cnrnelni, Neec.-. al thi- I rarie. anrl al©lci owned and occupier! a* a dwell brought us throng.. slly foiied hei hi keep Ihe two \©a., December 17. 1S01, and less chiiditMi clmu©intf tf> ber vil Ii him -evci ;il n\»t\\ .s. he cjH- faint- to Smith Carolina when a skuts. Fortunately my father ing by Hi. A. P. Wylie. It .still For several summer s and win © Hr.ii ;j.nl-, Maiy ;ind Sarah, nl stands in the town, but has been f| e I o j i o 11 111 \ ; 11 n: i i ( i youth. H>© first settled in York- had many friend*, though poor, tcrs the family continued tbu.- ; lie in©i©dlr, aid lo bind I In- eld to In m a- a n ,\ ppi cm remodeled. My mother appreci- 1 to live and, by the blessing of i "©I mil, John. ;i> a ppi ©-ill ice In vine, where hi- leMrned Ihe tail and my mother was a devout thai hi- woiiH tea me or©s trade with his un-ele. Wil membei .-t ihe Baptist Crunch a a Led the value to her chilli-en of tiud. to enjoy health. (be tailor©- trade. education, and availed herself of ] trade upon no other lerm.-. i!er liam Dedman. who was also from .-incere Cluistian, and a wumun .My two eldest sisters became Tlir © V\ r| e all - |e;ol> , V. ^\ lin^ every opportunity lit send her experience wil h I lie ap|>reiii i,-f.©- Virginia, and afterwards re of character and intelligence. in girlhood tailoresses with my \voi 1 l\4©i s, find to the-.!- Ihe ,\Htili,U© children to school, hut they were j- hip " f h©-j f i i>t si m no| in-ill..© moved to N©urth Carolina, my Such a woman will never lie mother. My eldest brother, cr diilfliTii owe a debt of lasting fi om nece-sity entered as poor cut rely ideasant, she had resoK - i©iitht-r remaimrijr in South Car<»- without sympathizing friend-. John, was bound by articles as gral it mle. scholar- under© the laws of the- r-rl ,iot to bind out aliollier child, iii:;». On thi© ©.©th day of July, ! *,.) © nn:ite!y for her ami her an appi entice to Daniel Cat roll. State providing for the educa The fun r ;. mi nger rtnldri©ti ami -o informed Mr. Parish, lie I *©:.©2. Dabney Hii-ison married liulc ones, the} lived in a com K.X.I., to learn the tailor©s trade, tion of such. Blessed be her WCI©e r.epl in srboiil a.- Jtnei in-i-ied upon his let ms, but she Narcissa Cook, tin- eldest dautrh- munity noted then and now for am! the younger children, Maria, © t©ii©d;ii -, i. e.. nn I lie tfreat l> in fiimU declined, and ihus cndei. icr of Benjamin Cook nnd Saran, memory for her wise forecast in charity lo the poor, the needy this respect. aiid for her toils Joshua, Rush and Cornelia, were iifli©ijiiat e fi©©©e M©hrml fnii©l, ar >J my career a.- a r-abiiietmakei. I his wife, both natives of York. and worthy. She was ui^ed to steadily kept at school, first, as my motbei and si-tei nuule Up was ilms once more an idle i>..\. .Mother \\ H.-> born October ^K, and sacr if ices to confer this scatter hei children uironti rela blessing upon her children. 1 remarked, t<> Miss Ann foster, tin 1 deficiency by sewing for liie hni very impat ieni to in-t io 1*00. After his marriage, Dab tives, or to bind them out to and after her marriage Lo Mi.© t ear-he i s. t©ndr-r the law she work. My b rot tier John hau by ney Hudson ic-moved to I.aiicas- various trades and callings, or to Her devot ion to hei t hildirn, Kit veil (jilmore, ue weni lo her eonld hav© avoided ©hi- tax upon thi« time opened a tailor shop in ter a in! th©-H1 opened a tailor send them to the poor house. her great industry and mai ked successor, Mr. Wylie Jone.-, who hr-r labor and si renjii h; hut r>| cMpnrtnei -hip - w.i Ii Mr. Karl©/y. -hop. Here he am! wife lived Such -un©jiestions she declined piety made for hei friends, and taught in a small building which law she ami hei childi ©-n knev\ and it.t" thi- 1 uent tri ;\ ork, several years, and thm removed and resolved to keep the little they united in a move to secure afterwards became a part of the notiiing. and besides -he pie i ii©ni^©h with reluctance, hecau-e ]©. Chi-stei. In Lancaster, their ones with her M» long a.s a >h*-l- for her a home. Maj. John Ken carriage shop of Mr. C. Hoist. ferred to do the work and feel I tii.fi an aversion to the life uf I©irst child, Mary, was born. In ter and a morsel of biead could nedy donated to her during life Mi. Jones WHS succeeded by Mi. partially independent. a tail or. sit) inn ci us.- -ley;yei| on Chester, L>abney opened shop LM be had. Sealy as schoolmaster in the a hair) bench in a stooping ,i ,-, repartnership witli hi> brothel, a half acre of land, the name I \v a - MTV fund of my bnok.- John Kosboi©uijL,h. K*q.. called now owned by .Mr. t.©oogler, on same building, assisted by Mt. aii©l lenrlicd rapidly, a- much sn t ion, -te»idi!\ si it chiny w it.h a Uush, who hart come from Vir by everybody "I©nele Johnny," MeOaniel. So far the schooU needle, llul I o mi© it -ceiui d ginia and bcyan life as a house Depot stree^, and upon which he as any of my feUnu pnptl.-. A f was then clerk of the c"uris of has his store and dwelling. had been mixed, male and fe ter I lit- errctirm nf tin- male, aca- I his or nut hh©y. and at it I went. laipentcr in Yorkville. He niar- Genera! Sessions ami Common male attending together, until a i»rd was learniiiK well when M t. i icd a Mis-. Mary Hopkins, and I©pon this vacant lot a few demy on the hi!!, a nii-e -injile- I©leas for the Oistriet of Che.,- mule academy was built on the story brick building-, the teachers Samuel McAlilley, <©nniinu in this became also a farmer as well as ter. under the life tenure system, charitable citizens erected a log hill in We>t Chester, to the real oi©fi©-f in t he late fall of I h IN, .1 house carpenter. cabin and covered it with thtee- to whom I went \UM e: .Mr. Shei- .-o that he held the office until of the residence of Mr, Th©iinaj rill, M i . Slielton, Mrs, [>uvii-.«, saw me on the bench, lie had at © I>ui injr his life in * ©hesLcr, his dt nth, many years after this foot oak hoards, but failed to McLuie as it then was, ami * IMIKV t han on-- school e x tun i na 1©abisey had seven child] en bnrn build a chimney. , ,"\I). Sealy again, and Mr. IJan- time. He hail ot. hi- nremisen a female >chool was opened on sirncr.